Volume 6: Fighting for the World Chapter 98: Hundred-Man Killing (2)
After the attack, I didn't stay here for long. I took my men to fight elsewhere. I wasn't worried that the three neutral professional players would come after me to cause trouble. With their average strength, it was easy to deal with them. In addition to killing the bright players and NPCs, I wanted to create an illusion for the leaders of Tiancheng, so that they would guess that I was messing around in the city to lure the tiger away from the mountain, with the purpose of disrupting the smooth progress of the five-hour celebration in the central square. With these concerns in mind, they would not go all out to hunt me down now, so as to buy more time for my "hundred-man slaying" operation.
He summoned another Night Shadow in a secluded place, then turned a few blocks and quickly found a suitable target. The Light players who were unprepared, outnumbered, and not very strong were no match for the Night Shadow. He resolved the battle within a few minutes, replenished some mental strength, and also spared the two neutral professional players. He disappeared and left with his men.
I deliberately avoided the Light players and NPCs patrolling the city, and only targeted those defenseless players. In an hour, I committed six crimes in different locations, killing a total of 22 Light players. Because I couldn't grasp the severity of my attacks, I "accidentally killed" two neutral professional players who kept pestering me. Although their strengths were ordinary to me, they were all level 7 professions, which could barely make up the numbers. And if it was not necessary, I still refused to let the Night Shadows go into battle - now is just the beginning, and keeping some trump cards may come in handy. Each time I only deal with a few Light players of average strength, a dozen Night Shadows are enough.
The person in charge of Tiancheng should have known about my actions long ago, but it was already four o'clock in the afternoon. As I expected, they did not want to affect the five-hour celebration, so they did not openly carry out a large-scale search and arrest operation. On the surface, everything was in order. Even the light players and NPCs who were patrolling and guarding discovered me, the "invader" who was killing people. They no longer blew the whistle at the first time, but chose to rush over to attack me silently, and at the same time sought support from nearby companions through the internal channel. And the light players who moved freely in the city seemed to have received the internal notice of the Church of Light, and tried not to move in remote and sparsely populated places. Although they had not summoned their pets and entered the combat state, they all showed their weapons. On the surface, they looked normal, but they looked around from time to time when they walked. In particular, they paid attention to the ground nearby. It was obvious that they had strengthened their vigilance, which increased the difficulty of my sneak attack. It is estimated that the person in charge learned the lesson when I first invaded the city. I don't want to cause a commotion in the city and make people uneasy because of my actions alone, so they chose to be as low-key as possible and conduct a search and kill in secret.
However, such passive defense methods were not enough to effectively stop my actions. Sneak attacks in remote areas were impossible, but I chose this method just to reduce some troubles, which did not mean that I was not capable of openly committing murders on the street. On a busy street, I selected two groups of nine light players with relatively concentrated positions as the target of killing. While fifteen ground-walking night shadows rushed out of the ground to launch a surprise attack, I also turned into a bat, spewing out clouds of blood mist to block the sight of other nearby players and cover the ground-walking night shadows' attack actions. I did not take the opportunity to absorb their mental power. I waited until the nearby light players and the NPC guards who came over after hearing the news jointly cast a spell to dispel the blood mist. I had already made a quick decision and killed the nine light players. I retreated unscathed, leaving them with only panic.
As a top player in Tianxia who is best suited to dealing with group battles, I can kill ordinary players who have not yet entered the combat state by sneak attacks. Even in crowded downtown areas, as long as I am a little further away from the guards, I dare to launch an attack. I always gain something and then escape smoothly. Ordinary attacks can't do anything to me. I am still constantly changing the location of the crime. The targets are all ordinary light players. I retreat after one strike and never get entangled with the opponent. Such behavior makes it seem that I have ulterior motives, making the leaders of Tiancheng suspicious in order to conceal my true intentions.
At six o'clock, half of the twelve-hour mission time limit had passed, and with my unremitting efforts, I had killed seventy-one light players. Now the main goal is to gather enough numbers first, and then find those strong ones to start with, and pursue a higher completion quality. The celebration of the Central Square has started for an hour , and it is still in full swing, but I just keep killing people in the surrounding urban areas, and I don't want to disrupt the celebration near the Central Square. Not to mention that the top players such as Supreme Honor and Holy Heaven will be present, there is a level 10 red cardinal sitting there, and there must be several level 9 professional NPCs around to escort them, which is definitely not something I can deal with. As long as I don't take the initiative to provoke them, with their identities and professions, they should not participate in the action of encircling me. The first priority is to successfully complete the additional promotion task. There is no need to make trouble. Choosing this time to attack the Church of Light, you must act within your ability and never be too greedy.
However, as the situation continued to escalate, I killed more and more Light players. Although I was the only one active and was careful to control myself, I did not cause too much commotion. However, due to the lack of effective means to curb my "atrocities", the atmosphere in the city became increasingly tense. Perhaps seeing through my choice of attack targets, in order to stabilize people's hearts, all Light players finally summoned their pets and entered combat mode. It seemed that they were using local alert to guard against my surprise attack to avoid affecting the entire city.
The other side adjusted their defensive strategy, and the Light players were ready for battle like the guards. Without being able to effectively distinguish their detailed strength, continuing to raid them would not be much of an advantage - the last time we had planned to kill eight Light players, we encountered their stubborn resistance, and the raid did not achieve the expected effect. The nearby players provided timely support, and we had to retreat after killing only five. The Light players tried to gather together as much as possible and did not go to remote places. Now we have not yet started a duel with those strong players, and I don't want my men to suffer losses for the time being. In this situation, it is more cost-effective to deal with the patrolling NPCs - their approximate strength can be estimated, and we can also choose to attack in remote areas with less interference, which is more convenient for me to control the situation.
The patrol team composed of NPCs of light in Tiancheng is different from the elite corps participating in the "Holy War of Light". Most of the members are "cheap goods" hired by the city lord. They are of the nature of private "local army" and do not occupy the quota of the NPC corps directly under the Church of Light. Their strength is not much stronger than the average level of players of the same level, but they are good at cooperation. They can make correct responses according to rules and instructions in time when encountering various situations. They will not be affected by negative factors such as panic and personal emotions. They are suitable for taking charge of public security in the city. Each patrol team consists of twelve people, half of whom are knights of light and half are church cadres. The members are ten level seven NPCs and two level eight NPCs as team leaders. Although they are only of ordinary level and have only reached the strength of the middle level of level eight at most, they are also qualified to serve as formal members of the "Hundred Man Killer". Of course, each division also has a twelve-man inspection team. The ordinary members are the eighth-level leaders of the patrol teams, and there are four elite eighth-level NPCs. However, the members who are formally incorporated into the Church of Light all have the strength of the upper eighth level. Once you encounter them, it will not be so easy to deal with them.
These two hours were devoted to quickly killing the target surrounded by many players, and then retreating after the success, without much opportunity to absorb their spiritual power. Fortunately, there was no strong opponent, and his men did not suffer any losses. There were a total of 17 ground-walking night shadows and 9 crouching night shadows, which were more than enough to deal with a patrol team of 12 people. The key was to fight quickly and resolve the battle as soon as possible, so as not to attract more reinforcements and add unnecessary trouble, which required the use of some means.
They targeted an NPC patrol team, all of which had standard configurations - the mount of the Light Knight was the Light Horse, and the pet of the White Cardinal was the Light Tiger, both of which could summon two-winged archangels; while the leader 's ordinary Light Fantasy Knight's mount was the land-based Silver-Horned Horse, and the pet of the Silver-Robed Bishop was the Glorious Tiger King, both of which could summon four-winged angels of light. They followed them to a more remote neighborhood and immediately launched an attack.
The strength of these NPCs is not outstanding, but their reactions are indeed very agile. Facing the sudden attack launched by the twelve Night Shadows, the six Knights of Light successfully dodged the first wave of attacks. Even the six priests were not in trouble. Two of them were unable to react in time, and their pets "replaced" them and were swallowed into the belly of the Night Shadow, which restrained the Night Shadow's actions. Before spitting out the "prey" in their stomachs, they could only hold on to their original positions and had no way to continue chasing. This is the strength of the NPCs, they can always concentrate and react quickly. Even our top players may not be able to catch up with them sometimes.
However, I have a total of seventeen Land Night Shadows, and five of them launched a secondary attack right after, targeting the five white cardinals. However, they once again staged a wonderful cooperation. When they were unable to dodge, they were still "swallowed alive" by their pets in time. One of them also escaped by chance under the cover of the strongest Phantom Knight. Still, no NPC was harmed.
Such a fruitless result was beyond my expectation. As the pulse mentioned in the data, the NPC guards used the correct response method in time to get rid of the crisis they encountered. However, their performance was limited to this. In the face of my overwhelming strength advantage, I did not give them too many opportunities to play. Each NPC was assigned a ground-walking night shadow to contain them, so that they could not take care of themselves and could only fight on their own, without giving them the opportunity to cooperate with each other. The remaining five ground-walking night shadows attacked the five cardinals in white. After several consecutive attacks, they were finally swallowed into their stomachs one by one. When they were vomited out, one was left for me to absorb the spiritual power, and the other four were ravaged. I scrambled to kill them and did not give them the opportunity to perform "Angel's Descend" to avoid wasting time.
Even in such a disadvantage, under the cover of the "self-sacrifice" of my companions, I, the Silver Robe Bishop, the Light Phantom Knight, still found an opportunity and summoned the Four-Winged Light Angel. However, with more people fighting fewer, and the individual strength was also superior to them, their desperate resistance only lasted for a moment, which just happened to be convenient for me to absorb the spiritual power of the White Cardinal. In the end, they still couldn't escape the fate of being annihilated, and by the way, I also took care of a few Light players who happened to be nearby but overestimated their own abilities and forced themselves to "uphold justice", all of whom became victims of my "hundred-man slaying" mission.
I still insisted on changing places after each shot. Once the goal was achieved, I quickly evacuated and moved to another place to find the next suitable target. If everything went well, I should be able to annihilate two more patrols before the celebration meeting in the central square ended, complete the basic task requirement of "killing a hundred people", and then "keep improving" to pursue a higher quality of completion.
In another nearby area, I followed another patrol team and followed them to a remote alley with few people, and immediately launched a surprise attack. However, their reaction was different from that of the previous patrol team. They probably knew that I had started to attack the patrol team, so they seemed to be prepared. While dodging the attacks of the Night Shadow, the knights covered the priests and tried their best to retreat to a distance, not staying in the same place for a long time. It seemed that through the multiple attacks during this period, they had already noticed the weakness of the Night Shadow's slow movement speed, and wanted to buy themselves some time to prepare for the battle by getting out of its attack range.
This is indeed a way to temporarily get rid of the crisis. Unexpectedly, the sudden attack of the seventeen ground-walking night shadows only swallowed a few pets, and they actually escaped. Of course, the ground-walking night shadows are just slow on the ground. Unless the opponent can fly, I will definitely not be able to catch up. Otherwise, as long as I sneak underground, I will be able to catch up with them soon and will not let them escape. However, with such a little buffer time, the twelve NPCs have already formed a battle formation, slowly and steadily retreating, while the six priests jointly cast the "Holy Light Barrier" to build a layer of protection. The six knights also began to summon angels to possess, further improving their combat effectiveness.
I can't help but admire the patrol's reaction. The reason why NPCs are stronger than players of the same level is that they don't make obvious routine mistakes, they can act according to instructions correctly, and usually take the most reasonable response methods. So fighting with them feels more troublesome. Fortunately, with their strength, even if they fully exert their strength, they can't be the opponent of the seventeen ground-walking night shadows. Even if the surprise attack becomes a strong attack, it will only delay a little more time, and it will not be a problem to deal with them.
Under the repeated attacks of the seventeen Night Shadows, the NPC patrol team could only defend themselves and were forced to retreat repeatedly. The situation was already precarious. As long as they were dispersed, it would be easy to deal with them. Just as we were about to break through their defensive formation, a piece of ground not far away suddenly lit up with a white light, which seemed to be a teleportation array. There were faint shadows swaying inside, which immediately surprised me - I had always asked the Ghost King to be vigilant and report the actions of the enemies around me at any time, but I didn't expect that someone would directly invade me.
I remember hearing Long Xing Tianxia mention that, although there are certain restrictions, for the convenience of management, in the city controlled by the player, the city lord has the right to set up a limited number of fixed small teleportation arrays in the city. It seems that this patrol team must have deliberately lured me here. Those who can use the teleportation array in the city must be enemies, not friends. I don’t know what level of enemy will come out of it. I immediately hid my body and ordered the ground-walking night shadows to slow down the attack. Together with the nine crouching night shadows, we were ready to retreat. In case the enemy’s strength is too strong, it’s better to slip away quickly. It’s still early before the end of the mission, and it’s not the time to fight them head-on.
The white light faded away, revealing twelve NPCs of light, all of them of level eight professions, six Knights of Light, six bishops in silver robes, and a standard formation of a combat team. Four of them were dressed in bright armor, which made them stand out. From their attire, it could be seen that they were not of the same level as the other eight level eight NPCs. It was probably the monitoring team in charge of this area, who rushed over as soon as they received the report that their subordinates were attacked. It was also my bad luck that the raid site I chose happened to be near the secret small teleportation array, so I was not able to resolve the battle in time.
There were a total of 24 enemies at the scene, four upper level 8, ten middle level 8, and ten middle level 7. After a brief consideration and reconnaissance by the Ghost King in the sky, I found that except for some scattered players, there were no other annoying teams around. I decided not to retreat. In addition to the 17 ground-walking night shadows, I also had nine crouching night shadows who had been hiding nearby and had never fought. There were a total of 26 middle level 8 subordinates. My health and mental strength were also relatively abundant, so I was fully capable of dealing with them. As long as I killed them all, not only could I make up the number of "hundred-man slayers", but the 14 level 8 NPCs should also be able to firmly occupy a place in the final result. It was definitely worth a bloody fight with them.
After making up their minds, they immediately took action. Under my orders, the 17 ground-walking night shadows that had slowed down their attacks all rushed forward again, launching a more fierce attack, as if they were trying to defeat the patrol team before the supervisory team arrived at the battlefield to rescue them. The nine crouching night shadows quietly sneaked to the rear of the supervisory team, preparing to find an opportunity to launch a sneak attack to see if they could kill a few silver-robed bishops first.
Although no enemies were found around, the monitoring team was still quite cautious, and everything was carried out strictly according to the battle procedures. As soon as they regained their ability to move, they quickly dispersed and formed a battle formation. Six phantom knights guarded the surroundings, and the silver-robed bishops jointly cast the "holy light barrier" to protect them all, and then summoned their respective pets - the two elite phantom knights had silver flying horses under their crotches, and the pets of the two elite silver-robed bishops, the glorious tiger kings, were also more powerful. They immediately began to cast "Angel Descend" or "Angel Possession", and performed in a very conventional manner, leaving no good sneak attack opportunities for Fu Xing Ye Ying. This is the advantage of NPCs, showing their importance to me, but sometimes it can also be regarded as their disadvantage - if I don't plan to confront them head-on and look for an opportunity to escape, I'm afraid it will be easy to miss the opportunity when they prepare for the battle step by step, and I will successfully escape. It is estimated that this should be an action initiated by the NPC according to the battle rules, not instigated by the Supreme Honor, otherwise it would not be so mechanical, and I don't know how to make adjustments according to my actual situation.
Because of the sudden appearance of the small teleportation array, I slowed down the attack, giving the patrol a chance to catch their breath, but the fiercer attack they launched soon after didn't let them hold out for long. Moreover, the arrival of reinforcements did not boost the morale of the NPCs, and they only focused on preparing for the battle first, and did not immediately launch a rescue operation. By the time the monitoring team was ready, the patrol team's defense had been partially broken up by the fierce attack of the seventeen ground-walking night shadows, and they were no longer able to hold on, and were about to collapse completely.
An elite Phantom Knight and four ordinary Phantom Knights quickly rushed over to reinforce the patrol team, leaving another elite Phantom Knight to guard the six silver-robed bishops. Under the protection of the "Holy Light Barrier", they steadily moved toward the battle circle, casting auxiliary magic on their companions, or participating in the attack with the "Great Saint Spear" to help their companions resolve the crisis for the patrol team.
Since the Silver Robe Bishop's defense was tight and there was no opportunity for a sneak attack, it would not be solved in a short time. I quickly made adjustments and transferred the nine Night Shadows back to assist the Night Shadows on the Ground to eliminate the patrol team. Killing one more is one more, so as to avoid more troubles and not being able to get anything from both ends. After all, I didn't have much time to play freely like before - once the celebration meeting in the central square was over, it was estimated that the Supreme Honor and Holy Heaven would be able to withdraw and focus on dealing with me.
